Jennifer Winterton and her family face the disrupting results of sudden fame after she publishes her late mother-in-law's country journals

Recounts the entertaining, shocking story of the involvement of Thea Morton, an unconventional woman, with both sex and the Roman Catholic Church

Losing her faith after twenty years in the cloister, Sister Mary Hilrary, now simply Gloria, finds the harsh world of modern London a frightening new experience

Product Description: In this book, her second collection of short stories, Perriam casts a candid eye on the foibles and neuroses of contemporary society. Many of her characters are living on a cliff-edge, prey to wild obsessions and guilt-edged insecurities, or struggling between doubt and faith, submission and revolt...read more

Product Description: "It seems crazy that in all that time I never stopped to think what I was actually cut out to do or be. But I'm sure I'm not unusual. There must be hundreds of people stuck in jobs they hate, or married to the wrong partner, or trying to be someone they're not...read more

Product Description: A novel of sexuality, morality, and Catholic guilt in a faltering marriage. Lying takes a sharp look at our whole culture of mendacity, in which hype and spin rule supreme, statistics are manipulated, history is rewritten, hoaxes abound on the internet, bogus guests appear on TV chat shows, and the travel, beauty, and health industries peddle expensive dreams...read more

Product Description: A surreal and wry collection of short stories. In her first collection of short stories, Wendy Perriam casts a candid and often humorous eye on the quirks and neuroses of contemporary society. Her characters are, to say the least, diverse: a grief-stricken widow manacled by a set of painted false nails; a son who keeps vigil by his mother's deathbed, fully aware that she isn't his mother; a frustrated painter with an eating problem, and a pregnant young girl who insists she has never had sex and is finally vindicated by a punk angel sporting an eyebrow-stud and a nose-ring...read more